Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.
Who was the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
The correct answer is B, Bachendri Pal, who reached the summit on 23 May 1984 with an Indian expedition and was honoured with the Padma Shri and later the Padma Bhushan.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games?
She won the bronze medal in the sixty-nine kilogram class in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the first Olympic medal by an Indian woman in any sport.
Read the full explanation →Which Article allows Parliament to provide for the adjudication of disputes relating to the waters of inter-State rivers and to bar the jurisdiction of courts in such disputes?
Article 262 lets Parliament provide by law for the adjudication of any dispute or complaint about the use, distribution or control of the waters of an inter-State river or river valley, and it also permits Parliament to provide that neither the Supreme Court nor any other court shall exercise jurisdiction…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following five subjects was NOT transferred from the State List to the Concurrent List by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976?
The 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 moved exactly five subjects from the State List to the Concurrent List: education, forests, weights and measures, protection of wild animals and birds, and administration of justice with the constitution and organisation of all courts except the Supreme Court and the High Courts.
Read the full explanation →The Goods and Services Tax Council was created by inserting which Article into the Constitution?
The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016 inserted Article 279A, under which the President constitutes the GST Council, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, with the Union Minister of State for Finance and a minister nominated by each State as members.
Read the full explanation →The Finance Commission of India is constituted by the President under which Article, and at what interval?
Article 280 requires the President to constitute a Finance Commission every fifth year, or at such earlier time as the President considers necessary, consisting of a chairman and four other members.
Read the full explanation →Under Article 249, Parliament may legislate on a subject in the State List if the Rajya Sabha passes a resolution supported by
Article 249 provides that if the Rajya Sabha declares by a resolution supported by not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting that it is necessary or expedient in the national interest, Parliament may make a law on a matter in the State List; such a law stays…
Read the full explanation →The Commission on Centre-State Relations appointed in 1983 was chaired by whom?
The Union government appointed a three-member Commission on Centre-State Relations in 1983 under Justice Rajinder Singh Sarkaria, a retired judge of the Supreme Court; it submitted its report in 1988 and recommended a permanent Inter-State Council, sparing use of Article 356, and consultation with States before legislating on Concurrent subjects.
Read the full explanation →The Inter-State Council in India was constituted under which Article of the Constitution?
Article 263 empowers the President to establish by order an Inter-State Council charged with inquiring into and advising upon disputes between States, investigating subjects of common interest, and making recommendations for better coordination of policy.
Read the full explanation →If a State law on a subject in the Concurrent List is repugnant to a law made by Parliament, which of the following is correct?
Article 254(1) lays down that where a State law is repugnant to a law made by Parliament on a Concurrent subject, the parliamentary law prevails and the State law is void to the extent of the inconsistency.
Read the full explanation →Residuary powers of legislation are vested in Parliament by which Article of the Constitution?
Article 248 gives Parliament the exclusive power to make a law on any matter not enumerated in the Concurrent List or the State List, and the power to impose a tax not mentioned in either of those lists; entry 97 of the Union List says the same thing from the…
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not included in the state list in the Constitution of India?
Criminal procedure is an entry of the Concurrent List, List III of the Seventh Schedule, along with criminal law and the law of evidence, which is why the code of criminal procedure has always been a central law that States may amend with the President's assent.
Read the full explanation →The portfolio system of administration in India was introduced by which Viceroy and recognised by which Act?
Canning introduced the portfolio system, under which each member of the Viceroy's council was placed in charge of one or more departments of government and could issue final orders on departmental matters; the Act of 1861 gave this arrangement statutory recognition and is also remembered for beginning the association of…
Read the full explanation →Under the Government of India Act of 1935, residuary powers were vested in
The Act of 1935 divided powers into a Federal List, a Provincial List and a Concurrent List, and left residuary subjects, those appearing in none of the three lists, to the discretion of the Governor-General, that is the Viceroy.
Read the full explanation →Separate electorates for Muslims were introduced in India by which Act?
The Morley-Minto Reforms created separate electorates in which Muslim members were elected only by Muslim voters, and for that reason Lord Minto is remembered as the father of communal electorates in India.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Viceroy of India after the Government of India Act of 1858?
The Act of 1858 gave the Governor-General the additional title of Viceroy, making him the direct representative of the Crown in India, and Lord Canning, who was Governor-General during the Revolt of 1857, became the first to hold the title.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following years was the Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament?
The Indian Independence Act was introduced in the British Parliament in July 1947 on the basis of the Mountbatten Plan of 3 June 1947, received royal assent on 18 July 1947 and came into effect on 15 August 1947, creating the dominions of India and Pakistan.
Read the full explanation →The Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the 1935 bill that led to the framing of the Government of India Act of 1935 was
The White Paper of 1933 on Indian constitutional reform was examined by a Joint Select Committee of the British Parliament chaired by Lord Linlithgow, and the Bill drafted on its report became the Government of India Act of 1935; Linlithgow later served as Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.
Read the full explanation →The Government of India Act, 1919 was passed by the British Parliament on the recommendation of ________.
Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, issued the declaration of August 1917 promising the gradual development of self-governing institutions, and together with the Viceroy Lord Chelmsford produced the report of 1918 on which the Act of 1919 was based.
Read the full explanation →Identify the INCORRECT statement about the Government of India Act 1919:
The Act of 1919 is known as the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms; the Morley-Minto Reforms were the Indian Councils Act of 1909, a decade earlier, remembered for separate electorates.
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